Skeezyks - I've been surfing libraries looking for your book. My local library has it as audio. I've seen a lot of those other educator titles you mentioned, at my university library.

I have been much of a hermit, too, but I have learned that knowing people even superficially allows for exchange of information that is valuable as well as other exchanges. I really enjoy that people in my building know I'm a gardener, and I can give away some of my veggies from time to time And I am not thinking zucchini here, but really good veggies. Being a hermit is good. It does often feel weird, though, to be a water drop in the oil stream or vice versa.

It hurts deeply, still, that I was unable to make friends all through my life. Somehow the urge to heal that is there.